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Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery July category listing 07/11

20110185220 - Remote diagnostic system and method based on device data classification: A remote diagnostic system and method based on device data classification. Device diagnostic data with respect to a device can be acquired and a conditional probability look up table can be constructed for each fault code associated with the device diagnostic data by a classification module. A score function can... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20110185221 - Fault tolerant routing in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system: Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. One or more processing engines of a network routing system are configured to function as active processing engines, each of which having one... Agent: Fortinet, Inc.

20110185224 - Flash storage device and data protection method thereof: A flash storage device comprises: a memory module, for storing data; a control unit, electrically connected to the memory module, for accessing the data in the memory module; and a detecting unit, electrically connected to the control unit, for passing a temperature detecting result to the control unit, and the... Agent: Lite-on It Corp.

20110185225 - Memory system with nonvolatile semiconductor memory: A memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory and a controller. The memory has a plurality memory blocks each including memory cells capable of holding data. The data in each of the memory blocks is erased simultaneously. The data is written simultaneously in pages in each of the memory blocks.... Agent:

20110185223 - Target operating system and file system agnostic bare-metal restore: A system, method, and computer program product for performing a bare-metal restore, the system including a target storage device, and a target computer configured to boot independent of the target storage device, expose the target storage device to a restoring computer after the target computer has booted, and act as... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110185226 - Storage system and control methods for the same: A RAID group is configured and operated by using multiple storage drives 171 and expanders 112 and 121 connected with the storage drives 171. If a failure related to any storage drive 171 is detected, a storage system 10 which issues a broadcast and a discover command to the communication... Agent:

20110185222 - Storage device, control device, and control method for storage device: A storage device includes first-storage-module having a storage region for storing data transmitted from a higher-order-device, a plurality of second-storage-module temporarily storing data, reception-processing-module receiving data transmitted from the higher-order-device, first-storage-processing-module storing data received from the higher-order-device in the first-storage-module and storing data received from the higher-order-device in the second-storage-module... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185227 - Method and system for virtual on-demand recovery for real-time, continuous data protection: A data management system or “DMS” provides an automated, continuous, real-time, substantially no downtime data protection service to one or more data sources associated with a set of application host servers. To facilitate the data protection service, a host driver embedded in an application server captures real-time data transactions, preferably... Agent:

20110185228 - Remedying method for troubles in virtual server system and system thereof: According to the invention, a managing server, using a snapshot-appended information table which stores management information for identifying snapshots of a virtual server, a setting change table which stores setting change information on the virtual server, and a policy table which stores policies to be met by the virtual server,... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110185229 - Fault diagnosis employing probabilistic models and statistical learning: A computer implemented fault diagnosis method employing both probabilistic models and statistical learning that diagnoses faults using probabilities and time windows learned during the actual operation of a system being monitored. In a preferred embodiment, the method maintains for each possible root cause fault an a-priori probability that the fault... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110185230 - Learning program behavior for anomaly detection: A computer-enabled method of learning the behavior of a program. A processor can execute a target program during a learning interval while varying a plurality of stimuli provided to the target program so as to produce a multiplicity of different sequences of events which differ in combinations of types of... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110185232 - Dynamic configuration of virtual machines: A computer implemented method for configuring virtual internal networks for testing is provided, such that affects of testing are internally isolated. The method includes deploying a virtual firewall and deploying a public switch enabling access to an external local area network through a first interface of the virtual firewall. A... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20110185231 - Software application testing: An online marketplace for distributing software applications is established. From the online marketplace, devices are enabled to select respective ones of the software applications and initiate testing of the selected software applications in connection with testing tools operating in respective secure testing environments that shield the devices from potential adverse... Agent:

20110185233 - Automated system problem diagnosing: Embodiments of the invention relate to automated system problem diagnosing. An index is created with problem description information of previously diagnosed problems, a diagnosis for each problem, and a solution to each diagnosis. System states, traces and logs are extracted from a source system with a new problem. The problem... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110185234 - System event logs: An automated method of processing computer system event logs comprises receiving event messages associated with one or more system event logs, each event message including event text, determining a set of message clusters, each comprising a template text, representative of the event messages across the one or more event logs,... Agent:

20110185235 - Apparatus and method for abnormality detection: An abnormality detection apparatus includes: a performance information obtaining unit to obtain load information of a computer; a response time obtaining unit to obtain a response time of the computer; a first abnormality determination unit to determine whether the computer is in abnormal operation state based on the load information;... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185236 - Common trouble case data generating method and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing common trouble case data generating program: A method of generating common trouble case data for managing a plurality of systems. The method includes (a) obtaining first identifiers of actual system components and a second identifier of a template from a system data storage unit, (b) obtaining third identifiers of definitional system components from a template data... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185237 - System and method for delivering messages: A system and method for delivering messages are provided. A method for communications device operations includes detecting a failure in a delivery of a message to a first recipient device, determining a second recipient device for the message, and initiating a redelivery of the message to the second recipient device.... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110185238 - Microcomputer, semiconductor device, and microcomputer applied equipment: In plural analog circuits that can operate in parallel and are coupled to a common analog power supply terminal, one analog circuit is controlled in the analog operation start according to timing control data that specifies an interval for suppressing the analog operation start of the one analog circuit in... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110185239 - Semiconductor testing apparatus and method: The present invention provides a semiconductor testing apparatus and method capable of reliably determining whether a semiconductor memory is good or bad. A “1” reading test of each cell corresponding to one bit at a first step is first performed on a memory cell array. “0” writing of each cell... Agent: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

20110185240 - Embedded processor: Electronic apparatus, systems, and methods of operating and constructing the electronic apparatus and/or systems include an embedded processor disposed in a logic chip to direct, among other functions, self-testing of an electronic device structure in conjunction with a pattern buffer disposed in the logic chip, when the electronic device structure... Agent:

20110185241 - Method and system for packet switch based logic replication: A method and system for compiling a representation of a source circuit including one or more source subchannels associated with portions of source logic driven by a plurality of clock domains are described. Each source subchannel may generate packets carrying signal data from one of the portions of the source... Agent:

20110185243 - Controlling two jtag tap controllers with one set of jtag pins: Various apparatuses, methods and systems for dual JTAG controllers with shared pins disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide a boundary scan apparatus having a first boundary scan circuit with a first plurality of control inputs, a second boundary scan circuit with a second plurality of control inputs, and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110185242 - Interface to full and reduced pin jtag devices: The disclosure describes a process and apparatus for accessing devices on a substrate. The substrate may include only full pin JTAG devices (504), only reduced pin JTAG devices (506), or a mixture of both full pin and reduced pin JTAG devices. The access is accomplished using a single interface (502)... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110185244 - Scan test circuit and scan test control method: A semiconductor integrated circuit, includes a control flip-flop for inputting a scan control signal and a scan path chain formed of a plurality of scan storage elements serially connected to each other. The scan path chain performs a shift operation as a first mode when an output of the control... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110185246 - Method and apparatus for correcting data points acquired during well drilling: Described herein are a method, apparatus and computer readable medium for correcting data points acquired during well drilling. The data points are typically stored in a text file that is accessible by a processor. The processor applies one or more tags to the data points, with each of the tags... Agent: Pason Systems Corp.

20110185245 - Method for detecting and correcting errors for a memory whose structure shows dissymmetrical behavior, corresponding memory and its use: To produce a memory which resists ion or photon attack, a memory structure is chosen whose memory point behaves asymmetrically with regard to these attacks. It is shown that in this case, it is sufficient to have a reference cell for an identical and periodic storage structure in order to... Agent: European Aeronautic Defence And Space Company Eads France

20110185248 - Majority vote error correction: In general, techniques are described for performing majority vote error correction techniques. In operation, a communication device comprising a control unit implements the majority vote error correction techniques. The control unit includes a link management module to request a first retransmission of a first communication received over a wireless communication... Agent: Qual Comm Incorporated

20110185247 - Massive structured data transfer optimizations for high-latency, low-reliability networks: Optimizations for data transmission may be provided. A portion of a data block may be read into a batch by a read thread on a first server. The batch may be passed to a transmission thread. The transmission thread may then transmit the first batch to a second server while... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110185249 - Spatial multiplexing communication system with enhanced codeword mapping with flexible rate selection on each spatial layer and with single harq process: A method of data transmission includes encoding an information block according to a predetermined retransmission protocol to generate, for a single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) instance, a transport block having information bits and error detection bits and channel coding different parts of said transport block using different modulation and... Agent:

20110185250 - Apparatus, method, and system for ip address negotiations: A wireless communications device for IP address negotiations is provided and comprises a wireless module, a connection device, and a processing unit. The wireless module provides wireless communications from and to a service network. The connection device is coupled to the terminal device. The processing unit is coupled to the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110185251 - System and method to correct data errors using a stored count of bit values: In a particular embodiment, at a controller coupled to a memory array, a method includes receiving an indication that a first group of data bits read from the memory array includes errors that are uncorrectable by an error correction coding (ECC) engine. A count of the first group of data... Agent: Sandisk Corporation

20110185252 - Coding pattern comprising multi-ppm data symbols with different layouts: A substrate having a coding pattern disposed thereon or therein. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of macrodots encoding first and second Reed-Solomon data symbols. Each first Reed-Solomon data symbol is represented by d macrodots, each of the d macrodots occupying a respective position from a plurality of predetermined possible... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20110185253 - Directory file system in a dispersed storage network: A method begins by a processing module receiving a data storage request, wherein the data storage request includes data and a data identifier (ID). The method continues with the processing module dispersed storage error encoding the data to produce a set of encoded data slices and determining a data dispersed... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110185255 - Encoding/transmitting apparatus and encoding/transmitting method: An encoding/transmitting apparatus that is used to transmit moving-picture data from a transmitting side to a receiving side through a transmission path and to subject the moving-picture data to streaming in the receiving side has an external-output request determining unit that monitors the state of a network. If the network... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110185254 - Error detection and correction scheme for a memory device: Data is read from a memory array. Before being stored in a data buffer, a Hamming code detection operation and a Reed-Solomon code detection operation are operated in parallel to determine if the data word has any errors. The results of the parallel detection operations are communicated to a controller... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20110185256 - Adjustment of write timing based on error detection techniques: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for adjusting write timing in a memory device based on results of an error detection function. For instance, the method can include determining a write timing window between a signal on a data bus and a write clock signal based on... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

20110185259 - Overwritable nonvolatile memory device and related data write method: A nonvolatile memory device comprises overwritable memory cells. In an overwrite operation, data is read from a selected region of the nonvolatile memory device and combined with overwrite data to produce combined data. An error correction code is then generated for the combined data and the overwrite data and the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110185258 - Selecting storage facilities and dispersal parameters in a dispersed storage network: A method begins by a processing module receiving a data storage request that includes metadata and data. The method continues with the processing module determining a base-line set of error coding dispersal storage function parameters based on the metadata. The method continues with the processing module identifying candidate dispersed storage... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110185261 - Semiconductor memory device: A memory device includes an error detection and correction system with an error correcting code over GF(2n), wherein the system has an operation circuit configured to execute addition/subtraction with modulo 2n−1, and wherein the operation circuit has a first operation part for performing addition/subtraction with modulo M and a second... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110185257 - Semiconductor memory having non-standard form factor: A semiconductor memory chip including error correction circuitry configured to receive data words from an external device, each data word comprising a binary number of data bits, and configured to error encode each data word to form a corresponding coded word comprising a non-binary number of data bits including the... Agent: Qimonda Ag

20110185260 - Storage of data in data stores having some faulty storage locations: Data storage control circuitry for controlling storage and retrieval of data in a data store in which data is stored in data blocks. A group data store stores data by grouping together blocks that have at least one faulty bit into groups of at least two blocks. For each group... Agent:

20110185262 - Error management: An electronic device is described which receives data from a transmitting device via a communications channel. The electronic device comprises digital processing circuitry arranged to process the data received via the communications channel to generate output data, error detection circuitry arranged to detect errors in the output data, and monitoring... Agent:

20110185263 - Hi-split upstream design for docsis: In one embodiment, upstream transmission throughput in a cable network is markedly increased by moving up the US/DS frequency split by approximately an order of magnitude to a few hundred MHz. Additional transceivers (carriers) may be implemented to take advantage of the broader spectrum. A block of multiple upstream carriers... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110185264 - Ldpc decoding with on the fly error recovery: It is decided whether to adjust data associated with a decoder. In the event it is decided to adjust the data associated with the decoder, the data is adjusted to obtain adjusted data and decoding is performed using the decoder and the adjusted data. In the event it is decided... Agent: Link_a_media Devices Corporation

20110185265 - High-speed and agile encoder for variable strength long bch codes: Agile BCH encoders are useful when the noise characteristics of the channel change which demands that the strength of the error correcting BCH code to be a variable. An agile encoder for encoding a linear cyclic code such as a BCH code, is a code that switches code strength (depth)... Agent:

20110185266 - Method of decoding a pattern-encoded coordinate: A method of decoding a coding pattern disposed on or in a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to a surface of the substrate; (b) capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern, the coding pattern comprising a plurality of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20110185267 - Encoding device, controller and system including the same: An encoding device includes an encoder and a puncturing unit. The encoder generates parity bits based on information bits. The puncturing unit punctures the parity bits based on a puncturing pattern complying with a first criterion determining a period of the puncturing pattern and a second criterion determining positions of... Agent:

20110185268 - Storage apparatus and data verification methd in storage apparatus: When a data write request to a disk drive 210 is received from a host computer 20, a first error detecting code of write data to be written to the disk drive 210 in response to the data write request is generated and stored, write processing of the write data... Agent:

20110179303 - Persistent application activation and timer notifications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for persistent application activation and timer notifications. A durable instance manager, instance execution hosts, and an instance store interoperate to transition instances between executing and persisted states. System properties are associated with an instance. System properties can define re-activation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110179304 - Systems and methods for multi-tenancy in contact handling systems: One example embodiment includes a method for providing multi-tenancy in a computing environment. The method includes receiving a script in a computing environment, where the script includes one or more actions to be completed by the computing environment. The method further includes providing one or more computing resources in the... Agent: Incontact, Inc.

20110179305 - Process for secure backspacing to a first data center after failover through a second data center and a network architecture working accordingly: A method (100) is proposed for safely switching back to a first computer center (DC1) following failover by a second computer center (DC2), where at least one transaction terminal is connected as a client (CLA) to the second computer center (DC2) during the downtime of the first computer center (DC1)... Agent: Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh

20110179306 - Data read method for flash memory: The invention provides a data read method. In one embodiment, a flash memory comprises a plurality of pages, and predetermined information is written into each of the pages of the flash memory. First, a target address of the flash memory is read according to a source read voltage to obtain... Agent: Silicon Motion, Inc.

20110179307 - Failover method and system for a computer system having clustering configuration: A failover control method for a virtual computer system including a plurality of virtual computers including: monitoring a second virtual computer via a first line by a first virtual computer among the plurality of virtual computers; detecting a malfunction of the second virtual computer by the first virtual computer; receiving... Agent:

20110179308 - Auxiliary circuit structure in a split-lock dual processor system: A multiple-processor system 2 is provided where each processor 4-0, 4-1 can be dynamically switched between running in a locked mode where one processor 4-1 checks the operation of the other processor 4-0 and a split mode where each processor 4-0, 4-1 operates independently. Multiple auxiliary circuits 8-0, 8-1 provide... Agent: Arm Limited

20110179309 - Debugging a multiprocessor system that switches between a locked mode and a split mode: A data processing system 2 is provided with multiple processors 4, 6 which can operate in either a split-mode in which each processor executes its own program flow or a locked-mode in which the processors execute the same program flow. Debug circuitry 8, 10 is associated with each of the... Agent: Arm Limited

20110179311 - Injecting error and/or migrating memory in a computing system: In some embodiments a request is received to perform an error injection or a memory migration, a mode is entered that blocks requests from agents other than a current processor core or thread, the error is injected or the memory is migrated, and the mode that blocks requests from the... Agent:

20110179310 - Storage system detecting physical storage device suffering failure, and method of performing processing for additional storage device provision: In a storage system, a first loop and a second loop are connected to a controller, and at least one of the first loop and the second loop is connected to existing storage devices (which are physical storage devices other than additional storage devices, which are physical storage devices which... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd

20110179312 - System and method for recovery from uncorrectable bus errors in a teamed nic configuration: A method for recovery from uncorrectable errors in an information handling system including an operating system (OS) and one or more network interface cards (NICs) is provided. The method may include detecting an uncorrectable error; determining whether the uncorrectable error is isolated to a particular NIC; determining whether the particular... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110179313 - System and method for correlating empirical data with user experience: A method includes receiving at a computing system empirical data related to one or more information technology entities. The method further includes receiving at the computing system one or more user experience indicators, the user experience indicators indicative of a user's experience using a computer application. The method further includes... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20110179316 - Data processing system comprising a monitor: A data processing system 100 comprising a monitor 120 is provided and corresponding system-on-chip, method for monitoring and computer program product. The data processing system comprises multiple processing devices 104, 106, 116, 116 and a monitor 120. The monitor is configured to monitor characteristics of the data streams 102, 112,... Agent:

20110179314 - Method and system of error logging: Method and system of error logging. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including detecting assertion of an error pin by a processor system, (comprising at least a main processor and a chipset, the assertion of the error pin an indication to reboot the processor system) the detecting... Agent:

20110179315 - Serdes link error management: Techniques for dynamically measuring and monitoring error rate in Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) links In one set of embodiments, a method includes polling a SerDes link status of a SerDes link at a predetermined rate. The method also includes storing a predetermined polling results in a memory, determining a number of polling... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110179317 - Volume and failure management method on a network having a storage device: A SAN manager acquires configuration information from devices constituting a SAN and produces a corresponding relationship between a host computer and a virtual volume (virtual volume mapping) and a corresponding relationship between the host computer and a real volume (real volume mapping). Based on those pieces of mapping information, the... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110179318 - Apparatus, a method and a program thereof: An apparatus and method for efficiently processing memory faults. A faulty memory is exchanged with a spare memory when the total number of faults in the memories is over a threshold. After the switching, when the number of faults in a single cache line is over a threshold, a memory... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110179319 - Field programmable redundant memory for electronic devices: An electronic device is provided including an input/output (I/O) interface, a plurality of memory elements, a controller coupled to the I/O interface and the plurality of memory elements. In the device, the controller configured for operating the plurality of memory elements during a normal operating mode of the electronic device,... Agent: Spansion LLC

20110179320 - Method for receiving data streams and corresponding method for transmission: The present invention relates to the domain of reception and transmission of data streams, for example audio and video. More specifically, the invention relates to the optional use of an error correction stream associated with a data stream.... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20110179321 - Information storage device and test method therefor: A method of testing the operational margin of an information storage device having marked random variations, and an information storage device having the function of self-diagnosing the operational margin, are provided. The test method includes testing an information storage device including a plurality of memory bits as the test condition... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110179323 - Memory with self-test function and method for testing the same: The present invention relates to a memory with a self-test function and a method for testing the same. The memory comprises a testing unit, a memory unit, and a comparison module. The method for testing the memory comprises steps of the testing unit producing a pattern signal; a first storage... Agent: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

20110179322 - Nonvolatile memory device and related program verification circuit: A program verification circuit comprises a failed state counting unit and a failed bit counting unit. The failed state counting unit counts failed program states among a plurality of program states, and generates a first program mode signal indicating whether counting of failed bits is required. The failed bit counting... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110179324 - Testing apparatus and method for analyzing a memory module operating within an application system: A testing apparatus for analyzing a memory module under test operating within an application system, wherein the memory module under test is coupled to a processor of the application system, is disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the testing apparatus comprises a first interface for coupling to the application... Agent: Kingtiger Technology (canada) Inc.

20110179325 - System for boundary scan register chain compression: A system for testing input/output pads of an integrated circuit includes boundary scan register chains, a test control unit and a test data processing unit. Input test data is provided to the test control unit, which then provides the test data to the test data processing unit. The test data... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc

20110179326 - The performance of signature-based diagnosis for logic bist: Techniques are disclosed for reducing the set of initial candidates in signature based diagnosis methodology. These techniques are based on a unique way of making optimum use of information from logic back-cone tracing along with equations that describe the test response compactor.... Agent: Mentor Graphics Corporation

20110179327 - Computer-implemented method for correcting transmission errors using linear programming: A computer-implemented method for correcting transmission errors. According to the method, a transmitted vector corrupted by error can be recovered solving a linear program. The method has applications in the transmission of Internet media, Internet telephony, and speech transmission. In addition, error correction is embedded as a key building block... Agent:

20110179329 - Apparatus and method for setting hybrid automatic repeat request and automatic repeat request parameter in mobile communication system: An apparatus is capable of setting HARQ and ARQ parameters in a mobile communication system. The apparatus sets HARQ and ARQ parameters in a mobile communication system. The apparatus sets a default HARQ parameter based on the determined default HARQ parameter setting condition determined by using a plurality of QCIs.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110179328 - System and method for ingesting media content in a peer-to-peer network: The invention relates to a method and system hardware for ingesting media content in a peer-to-peer network from a data stream. The data stream is made up of a sequence of packets of media data, and each packet is identified by a sequence identifier. The method includes commencing caching of... Agent:

20110179330 - Wireless communication terminal and communication control method: A wireless communication terminal having a plurality of antennas with a variable relative distance includes a decoder for iterative decoding of reception signals including an error-correcting code received by the plurality of antennas) and a control unit for controlling an iteration count of decoding by the decoder in accordance with... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110179331 - Method for mapping physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel: A method for mapping a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) is described. The method for mapping a PHICH includes determining an index of a resource element group transmitting a repetitive pattern of the PHICH, according to a ratio of the number of available resource element groups in... Agent:

20110179332 - Method for automatic repeat request operation, transceiver arrangement, and computer program: A method for automatic repeat request operation of a plurality of simultaneous automatic repeat request processes is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission comprising at least one transport block; storing soft bits of the transport block in a buffer; and transmitting an automatic repeat request process signal, wherein the... Agent:

20110179333 - Lower-complexity layered belief propagation decoding ldpc codes: Low density parity check (LDPC) decoders are described utilizing a sequential schedule called Zigzag LBP (Z-LBP), for a layered belief propagation (LBP) architecture. Z-LBP has a lower computational complexity per iteration than variable-node-centric LBP (V-LBP), while being simpler than flooding and check-node-centric LBP (C-LBP). For QC-LDPC codes where the sub-matrices... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of California

20110179334 - Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver: A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of processing data in the DTV transmitter are disclosed. A pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. A data formatter generates enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced... Agent:

20110179335 - Method and apparatus for configuring protocol header in wireless communication system: Provided are a method of configuring a protocol header in a wireless communication system, and a communication apparatus and method using the protocol header configuration method. The protocol header configuration method may include: configuring a variable length physical layer (PHY) header and a fixed length PHY header; encoding the fixed... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110179336 - Mode selection for data transmission in wireless communication channels based on statistical parameters: A method and communication system for selecting a mode for encoding data for transmission in a wireless communication channel between a transmit unit and a receive unit. The data is initially transmitted in an initial mode and the selection of the subsequent mode is based on a selection of first-order... Agent:

20110179337 - Memory utilization method for low density parity check code, low density parity check code decoding method and decoding apparatus thereof: A memory utilization method of low density parity check code (LDPC), a LDPC decoding method and a decoding apparatus thereof are provided, applicable for a decoding process in a wireless receiver. The memory utilization method of LDPC includes the following steps. First, variable node processes (VNPs) or check node processes... Agent: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.

20110179338 - Lossy coding of signals: A method is described for packing variable-length entropy coded data into a fixed rate data stream along with resolution enhancement data, the method providing tightly constrained propagation of transmission channel errors and graceful degradation of signal resolution as entropy-coded data rate increases. An application to a multiband ADPCM audio codec... Agent:

20110179339 - Method and apparatus for received signal processing in a wireless communication receiver: According to one aspect of the teachings presented in this document, a wireless communication receiver implements a form of joint detection that is referred to as “fast joint detection” (FJD). A receiver that is specially adapted to carry out FJD processing provides an advantageous approach to joint detection processing wherein... Agent:

20110179340 - Device and method for the fine synchronisation of different versions of a received data stream: The Invention pertains to the field of broadcasting digital services to terminals for transmitting said services, and concerns the problem of the smooth transfer between two versions of a same stream upstream from a transmitter within transmission networks on a single modulation frequency. The invention relates to a device for... Agent:

20110179342 - Communication error monitoring system of power device based on ethernet and method thereof: Disclosed is communication error monitoring system and method thereof. In the present disclosure, a master lower-level device, at least one or more slave lower-level devices, and an upper-level monitoring unit are inter-connected via Ethernet, wherein the upper-level monitoring unit receives information of lower-level devices determined as with communication error from... Agent: Ls Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.

20110179341 - Method and apparatus for compression and network transport of data in support of continuous availability of applications: Methods and apparatus for compressing data for network transport in support of continuous availability of applications are described. One computer-implemented method of compressing data includes receiving a current instance of data in an input buffer. A candidate chunk of data is selected from the input buffer. A signature hash is... Agent:

20110173486 - Communication apparatus, network, and route control method used therefor: Provided is a communication apparatus that is capable of enhancing fault resistance of a network. A communication apparatus includes, in a network where messages are exchanged among a plurality of communication apparatuses and route control is performed, a route summary processing means that creates route summary information obtained by summarizing... Agent:

20110173482 - Data processing apparatus and method for providing fault tolerance when executing a sequence of data processing operations: A data processing apparatus and method provide fault tolerance when executing a sequence of data processing operations. The data processing apparatus has processing circuitry for performing the sequence of data processing operations, and a redundant copy of that processing circuitry for operating in parallel with the processing circuitry, and for... Agent: Arm Limited

20110173483 - Fast resource recovery after thread crash: A resource recovery system may maintain a counter in memory that indicates a number of times one or more threads of execution, which use shared resources, have crashed. The system may associate a first value of the counter with a resource allocated to a thread of the one or more... Agent: Juniper Networks Inc.

20110173485 - Fec in cognitive multi-user ofdma: A multiuser scheme allowing for a number of users, sets of user, or carriers to share one or more channels is provided. In the invention, the available channel bandwidth is subdivided into a number of equal-bandwidth subchannels according to standard OFDM practice. A transmitter transmits data on a set of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110173484 - Solid-state mass storage device and method for failure anticipation: A solid-state mass storage device and method of operating the storage device to anticipate the failure of at least one memory device thereof before a write endurance limitation is reached. The method includes assigning at least a first memory block of the memory device as a wear indicator that is... Agent: Ocz Technology Group, Inc.

20110173487 - Method and apparatus for seamless management for disaster recovery: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are presented for establishing redundant computer resources. According to one embodiment, in a system including a plurality of processor devices and a plurality of storage devices, the processor devices, the storage devices and the management server being connected via a network, the... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110173488 - Non-volatile memory for checkpoint storage: A system, method and computer program product for supporting system initiated checkpoints in high performance parallel computing systems and storing of checkpoint data to a non-volatile memory storage device. The system and method generates selective control signals to perform checkpointing of system related data in presence of messaging activity associated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173491 - Failure recovery method: The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality... Agent:

20110173490 - High availability for network security devices: In one example, a backup intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) device includes one or more network interfaces to receive a state update message from a primary IDP device, wherein the state update message indicates a network session being inspected by the primary IDP device and an identified application-layer protocol for... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110173492 - Technique for protecting leaf nodes of a point-to-multipoint tree in a communications network in connected mode: A technique protects, in a communications network, a point-to-multipoint primary tree between a root node and primary leaf nodes of the network if a failure occurs affecting one of the primary leaf nodes. One network node receives from another upstream network node a request to protect the primary tree via... Agent: France Telecom

20110173493 - Cluster availability management: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173489 - Control method for protecting failure recovery of ethernet ring and ethernet ring nodes: The present invention discloses a method for controlling failure recovery of Ethernet loop protection and an Ethernet loop node. The method comprises: when a node adjacent to a failed link detects recovery of the link, blocking a port just recovered, setting the port to be in a pre-forwarding state and... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110173494 - Data processing system and data processing method: A data processing system for performing stuck-at control includes system boards that process data, a crossbar unit having control units to control communication between each system board, and a system controller without causing an availability ratio of a computer system to fall. When a control unit fails, the crossbar unit... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110173495 - Method and system for reliable intersystem message notification: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for reliable intersystem message notification that can ensure reliable delivery of notification messages. The method includes the following steps: storing notification messages persistently; sending a new stored notification message or a retry notification message; and resending the notification message in an event... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20110173496 - Intelligent condition monitoring and fault diagnostic system for preventative maintenance: A system for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis includes a data collection function that acquires time histories of selected variables for one or more of the components, a pre-processing function that calculates specified characteristics of the time histories, an analysis function for evaluating the characteristics to produce one or more... Agent: Brooks Automation, Inc.

20110173498 - Methods and apparatuses for generating network test packets and parts of network test packets: Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation for test purposes of test packet ingredients by a microprocessor, ongoing with the generation for test purposes of test packets incorporating the test packet ingredients by a high-speed FPGA. Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation of outgoing test... Agent: Spirent Communications, Inc.

20110173497 - Safety output device: A safety output includes an output controller to make an instruction to output normal output data and first self-diagnosis pattern data synchronously with a control cycle, a normal output unit to output the normal output data synchronously with the control cycle, a test pattern generating unit to encode the self-diagnosis... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110173499 - System of testing engineered safety feature instruments: The present invention certifies control modules of engineered safety feature instruments for a power plant automatically. The control modules can be tested before storing or operating. The test is done with enhanced testing speed and saved cost. Thus, safety of the control modules is confirmed.... Agent: Atomic Energy Council-institute Nuclear Energy Research

20110173500 - Apparatus and method for managing network system: An apparatus for managing a network system including a plurality of components, the apparatus includes a memory that stores component type data of each component of the plurality of components, component relation data including relation information indicating a pair of components related to each other in the network system and... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110173501 - Memory management techniques selectively using mitigations to reduce errors: A mitigation enablement module for a computer that improves application reliability. When performing memory management operations, the mitigation enablement module and associated memory manager selectively use mitigations that are intended to prevent an application bug from cause an application error. The memory manager may selectively apply mitigations for each of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110173502 - Universal serial bus system and method: When a controller identifies a universal serial bus (USB) device connected to a USB interface, it outputs a control signal to close a relay and a first start test signal to an electronic device to test a USB interface of the electronic device. When the test of the USB interface... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110173503 - Hardware enabled performance counters with support for operating system context switching: A device for supporting hardware enabled performance counters with support for context switching include a plurality of performance counters operable to collect information associated with one or more computer system related activities, a first register operable to store a memory address, a second register operable to store a mode indication,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173504 - Communication system, a communication method and a program thereof: A communication system capable of identifying a path where a fault has occurred when the fault is detected. The communication system has a host computer with a host port, a switch with a switch port and a storage device with a storage port which is connected to the host port... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110173505 - Method for detecting memory error: A method for easily detecting a memory error that may occur when a memory is accessed or an allocated memory is freed in the process of developing software is disclosed. The memory error detecting method includes: (a) generating an original block indication variable for indicating a starting memory block of... Agent:

20110173506 - Clearing scsi reservations for non-detectable initiators for extended duration: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing storage system resources in a storage area network (SAN). A target data storage server registers itself within a storage area network (SAN) fabric to receive a Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) should a SCSI initiator become inactive. A SCSI initiator... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173507 - Interleaving/de-interleaving method, soft-in/soft-out decoding method and error correction code encoder and decoder utilizing the same: An error correction code encoder is provided. A first encoder encodes input information bits and generates first parity check bits. An interleaver interleaves the input information bits and generates permuted information bits. A second encoder encodes the permuted information bits and generates second parity check bits. The interleaver interleaves the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110173508 - Radio receiver and method for channel estimation: A radio receiver includes an input terminal to receive a first radio signal, an equalizer, coupled to the input terminal, to equalize the first radio signal and to output an equalized signal and a first channel estimator, coupled to the input terminal and the equalizer, to estimate first channel parameters... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20110173509 - Bit mapping scheme for an ldpc coded 16apsk system: A digital communication system, having a transmitter to transmit a digital signal; and a receiver to receive the digital signal; wherein the digital signal utilizes a 16APSK system, and the signal is bit-mapped using gray mapping, and bits of the digital signal are ordered based on the values of a... Agent: Availink, Inc.

20110173510 - Parallel ldpc decoder: An LDPC decoder that implements an iterative message-passing algorithm, where the improvement includes a pipeline architecture such that the decoder accumulates results for row operations during column operations, such that additional time and memory are not required to store results from the row operations beyond that required for the column... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20110173512 - Memory and method for checking reading errors thereof: A method for checking reading errors of a memory includes the following steps. A first data fragment is received. A first count index according to the first data fragment is generated, wherein the first count index is corresponding to a quantity of one kind of binary value in the first... Agent: Macronix International Co., Ltd.

20110173511 - Method and device for encoding of error correcting codes, and method and device for decoding of error correcting codes: Provided is an error correction encoding device including: an outer encoding circuit (33) for performing encoding processing for outer code; and an inner encoding circuit (34) for performing encoding processing for inner code, the inner encoding circuit (34) including an inner-encoding input circuit (54) for performing interleaving processing in which... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110173514 - Data protocol: A method of transmitting data according to a data transmission protocol wherein the data is transmitted as a plurality of data frames and each data frame includes an error checking field comprising at least two sub-fields, the data of the first sub-field being formed by a first error checking method... Agent: Solarflare Communications, Inc.

20110173515 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiver receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. A known data detector detects known data from the broadcast signal. An equalizer performs channel equalization on the mobile service data received by means of... Agent:

20110173513 - Reference cells for spin torque based memory device: A method of reading and correcting data within a memory device that includes reading each data bit of a data word using a plurality of reference cells corresponding to each data bit, performing error detection on the read data bits, and correcting a read data bit when an error is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173516 - Method and device for information block coding and synchronization detecting: A method and a device for information block coding and synchronization detecting are provided. Information block coding and synchronization detecting are preformed according to a synchronization character sequence satisfying certain conditions. Thus, the probability of incorrect synchronization is effectively reduced without increasing the complexity. Optimal synchronization character sequences in different... Agent:

20110173517 - Symbol-level random network coded cooperation with hierarchical modulation in relay communication: Disclosed is a novel cooperative communication strategy jointly using symbol-level random network coding and hierarchical modulation in order to effectively minimize packet error rate in error prone wireless networks. The source (or sender) broadcasts random network coded symbols with hierarchical modulation to the relays and the destination (or receiver). In... Agent:

20110173518 - Apparatus and method for determining reliabiilty of decoded data in communication system: A method and apparatus for determining the reliability of decoded data in a communication system. The method includes calculating a total sum of absolute values corresponding to Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values of received data, generating a first value obtained by multiplying the total sum of the absolute values by... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110173519 - Wireless communication apparatus and error detection result feedback method: A wireless communication apparatus and an error detection result feedback method wherein unnecessary retransmissions are avoided to improve the system throughput. At a base station (200), a decoding unit (205) decodes code words, which have been mapped to a TTI bundle, for the respective TTIs in the TTI bundle. An... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110173520 - Systems and methods for routing data in a network device: A system detects an error in a network device that receives data via a group of data streams. The system receives a data unit, where the data unit is associated with at least one of the streams and a sequence number for each of the associated streams. The system determines... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110167293 - Non-disruptive i/o adapter diagnostic testing: A primary I/O adapter and a redundant I/O adapter of a data processing system are assigned to support access to a system resource. While the primary I/O adapter is in service and the redundant I/O adapter is not in service in providing access to the system resource, a fail over... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110167295 - Method and/or apparatus for certifying an out of band management application in an external storage array: A method for configuring a storage array, comprising the steps of (A) configuring the storage array with a minimal number of components for initial testing; (B) sending a first symbol call command to the storage array to initiate a test of a structure of the storage array; (C) receiving a... Agent:

20110167294 - Storage system for restoring data stored in failed storage device: A storage system including: a controller; and, a plurality of physical storage devices coupled to the controller and constituting a RAID group; wherein the controller provides one or more logical volumes belonging to the RAID group, each of the one or more logical volumes having a plurality of storage areas;... Agent:

20110167297 - Clock-data-recovery technique for high-speed links: A receiver circuit is described. In the receiver circuit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) generates first samples of a data signal based on a first clock signal, and a clock-data-recovery (CDR) error-detection circuit generates second samples of the data signal based on a second clock signal. In addition, the CDR error-detection... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110167296 - Register file soft error recovery: Register file soft error recovery including a system that includes a first register file and a second register file that mirrors the first register file. The system also includes an arithmetic pipeline for receiving data read from the first register file, and error detection circuitry to detect whether the data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110167299 - Communication system and method for controlling the same: For an error rate QBER, threshold values are preset, including a threshold value Qbit for frame synchronization processing, a threshold value Qphase for phase correction processing, and a threshold value QEve for eavesdropping detection. Upon the distribution of a quantum key from a sender to a receiver, when the measurement... Agent:

20110167298 - Packet mirroring between primary and secondary virtualized software images for improved system failover performance: Packet loss at a standby server during failover results when the primary fails. There is currently always some amount of packet traffic that is inbound to the primary that is lost during the failover interval. With existing solutions, this packet loss during failover is inevitable. The problem is that when... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110167300 - Device driver rollback: Techniques for device driver management/installation are provided. In at least some embodiments, a device driver management system can be employed by a user to selectively rollback a currently installed device driver to one or a plurality of previously installed device driver(s). Additionally, the system can be employed by the user... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110167301 - Formula server for diagnostic systems: An apparatus and method are provided and include a formula server having formulas and conversion modules that are separate from a diagnostic application of a diagnostic tool. The diagnostic tool receives the diagnostic data and transmits it to a remote computer, where the data is converted using a formula. The... Agent: Spx Corporation

20110167302 - Diagnostic data set component: Various embodiments for retaining diagnostic information for data in a computing storage environment are provided. In one such embodiment, a diagnostic component associated with a base data set via a catalog association record is initialized. The diagnostic component configured to retain base data set-specific diagnostic information retrievable by the computing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110167303 - Gui evaluation system, gui evaluation method, and gui evaluation program: The consistency of the heading expressions used in each screen in a plurality of evaluated screens is exhaustively and reliably evaluated. The GUI evaluation system comprises: GUI information storage means for storing GUI information that concerns heading included in an evaluation target screen and includes information indicative of heading expression... Agent:

20110167304 - System, method and computer readable medium for providing redundancy in a media delivery system: In a digital video system, high availability distribution is provided using spare modules such as an integrated receiver decoder, multimedia transcoder and streaming module in support of the primary modules. The primary modules multicast status messages which are monitored by the spare modules. When failure of a primary module is... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20110167305 - Methods and apparatus for soft data generation for memory devices based on performance factor adjustment: Methods and apparatus are provided for soft data generation for memory devices based on a performance factor adjustment. At least one soft data value is generated for a memory device, by obtaining at least one read value; and generating the soft data value based on the obtained at least one... Agent:

20110167307 - Semiconductor memory and method for testing the same: A semiconductor memory in which arbitrary operation mode information is set in a plurality of CRs at test time and by which a test cost is reduced and a method for testing such a semiconductor memory. The plurality of CRs hold operation mode information. When a CR control circuit detects... Agent: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

20110167306 - Semiconductor test apparatus: A semiconductor test apparatus sorts addresses corresponding to memory cells in memory provided in a device under test, as well as failure data obtained as a result of testing the memory cells, and stores the sorted addresses and failure data in acquisition memory using burst access. The semiconductor test apparatus... Agent: Yokogawa Electric Corporation

20110167308 - Multi-site testing of computer memory devices and serial io ports: A method and apparatus for multi-site testing of computer memory devices. An embodiment of a method of testing computer memory devices includes coupling multiple memory devices, each memory device having a serializer output and a deserializer input, wherein the serializer output of a first memory device is coupled with a... Agent:

20110167309 - Decompressor/prpg for applying pseudo-random and deterministic test patterns: A novel decompressor/PRPG on a microchip performs both pseudo-random test pattern generation and decompression of deterministic test patterns for a circuit-under-test on the chip. The decompressor/PRPG has two phases of operation. In a pseudo-random phase, the decompressor/PRPG generates pseudo-random test patterns that are applied to scan chains within the circuit-under... Agent: Mentor Graphics Corporation

20110167310 - Scan based test architecture and method: An integrated circuit architecture including architecture for a scan based test, where the integrated circuit includes N scan chain sets including one or more scan chains and an input register bank. The input register bank includes an input for serially receiving an N-bit input vector synchronous with a first clock... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20110167311 - System and method for analyzing an electronics device including a logic analyzer: A system for testing or debugging a system including the integrated circuit having an embedded logic analyzer. In one embodiment, the system includes a computing device coupled to the logic analyzer for receiving the at least one output. A user interface run on the computing device assigns an attribute to... Agent:

20110167312 - Radio transmission device and radio transmission method: Provided are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce the transmission packet collision generation ratio even when no resource allocation signal is detected in retransmission. When control information outputted from a decoding unit (204) contains NACK and retransmission Grant, a retransmission resource check unit (205)... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110167315 - Apparatus and method for coding/decoding block low density parity check code in a mobile communication system: A system and method for processing a block Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code are provided. The system includes, a decoding apparatus for decoding a block LDPC code using a parity check matrix, the parity check matrix including an information part and a parity part, the parity part including a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110167313 - Multi-channel statistical multiplexing of fec decoders: A method for dividing a total number of decoders among decoder queues of codewords of different sizes, the codewords transmitted on return communication links from data terminals to a gateway of a satellite communications system, includes for each of K groups, allocating a respective number of decoders dedicated to decoding... Agent: Viasat, Inc.

20110167314 - Variable forward error correction for optical communication links: A method and system for setting a variable forward error correction overhead in an optical transport network frame for an optical link at a node are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a forward error correction overhead, signaling an optical node the selected forward error correction overhead, and... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110167316 - Method and device for row and column interleaving of blocks of variable size: The present disclosure relates to a method for interleaving a stream of input data blocks, the method comprising steps of: subdividing a block into sub-blocks of fixed size in number of data rows and data columns, the sub-blocks being distributed in the block in rows of sub-blocks and in columns... Agent: Stmicroelectronics (grenoble 2) Sas

20110167317 - Apparatus for adaptable/variable type modulation and demodulation in digital tx/rx system: Disclosed is an adaptable/variable type modulation/demodulation apparatus. A physical layer transmission apparatus for adaptable/variable type modulation, the transmission apparatus including a classification unit to classify a bit stream according to a standard that is determined in advance after receiving the bit stream, an uncoded bit group unit to group the... Agent:

20110167318 - Reading method of a memory device with embedded error-correcting code and memory device with embedded error-correcting code: A reading method for a memory device with error-correcting encoding envisages the steps of: carrying out a first reading of a plurality of memory locations (A0, A1, . . . , ALS-1) to generate a first recovered string (S1), and performing a first decoding attempt using the first recovered string... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20110167319 - Error correction in a stacked memory: Electronic apparatus, systems, and methods to construct and operate the electronic apparatus and/or systems include a stack of memory dies with user data and/or first level error correction data stored in a stripe across the memory dies. One such stack can include a second level error correction vault, such as... Agent:

20110167320 - Flash memory: A flash memory includes a memory sector, a command interface, a first signal buffer, a control signal generation circuit, a data input buffer, an error correction circuit, an address buffer, an address signal generation circuit, a plurality of data memory circuits, and write circuit. The command interface receives a write... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110167321 - Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving data for improving transmission rate: A data transmitter and receiver for improving a data rate, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in which a pilot signal is added to a data signal is provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter including: a pilot... Agent: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation For Corporate Collaboration

20110167322 - Methods to improve acs performance: In one embodiment, systems and methods of operating a SOVA system is disclosed that comprises determining the start and stop values for a trellis tree and using the start and stop values to determine the initial states of a plurality of branches within the trellis tree.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20110167323 - Error-correcting apparatus and method thereof: The invention discloses an error-correcting apparatus for decoding an input signal by using a Viterbi algorithm to generate a Viterbi-decoded signal, including an erasure unit and a decoder. The erasure unit is configured to generate at least one logic signal according to at least one path metric difference of path... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110167325 - Back channel communication: Various embodiments are described for back channel communication. One embodiment is a method that comprises receiving data at customer premises equipment (CPE), determining at least one error in the received data, formatting the determined error for communication to a central office (CO), and sending the formatted error to the CO... Agent: Ikanos Communications, Inc.

20110167324 - Logic circuit protected against transient disturbances: The invention concerns a circuit protected against transitory perturbations, comprising a combinatorial logic circuit (10), having at least an output (A); a circuit (20) generating an error control code for said output, and a storage element (24) provided at said output, controlled by the circuit generating a control code to... Agent: Iroc Technologies Corporation

20110167326 - Relay apparatus and wireless communication system: A relay station and a wireless communication system wherein novel retransmission control is achieved in cases when a TTI-bundling technique and a relay technique are used in communication between a terminal and a base station. A relay station (300) relays wireless communication between a terminal that transmits a wireless signal... Agent: Panasonic Corporation